Innovative Leadership
Boot Camp:
Supporting Innovation
Supporting Innovation
Building a framework to support workflow,
partnerships, change, ideas, and
community engagement is essential to
harnessing the potential of a culture of
innovation. Discover some basic exercises,
tools, and templates that you can use to
plan, execute, monitor & control, and
evaluate the change you create.
Process Mapping
Project Proposal
Project Information
Project Approval
Background
Objectives
Scope, Constraints, Assumptions
Interdependencies
Business Case: Cost/Effectiveness Analysis
Stakeholders
Significant Risks
Costs & Resources
Roles
Proposed Time Frame
Project Plan
Management summary
Major changes from project proposal
Project proposal components
Work breakdown structure (WBS)
Risk management plan
Quality management plan
Communication management plan (includes training)
Risk Assessment
Threat or Opportunity
Assess stakeholder risk tolerance
Define probability and impact (values that are low, moderate, high)
Probability and impact matrix
Risk management plan:
Methodology (responses), roles and responsibilities, budgeting, timing,
reporting formats, tracking, and risk categories.
Risk Matrix
Stakeholder Assessment
Stakeholder Engagement
Unaware: Create awareness! Share newsletters, project updates,
make personal contact and communicate about their
responsibilities and what they can do to support the project.
Resistant: Develop a degree of understanding. Communicate common ground and highlight mutual benefits. Use consultation,
feedback, & friendly debate. For authority positions, find areas for
compromise and concession to allay their concerns. Don’t dictate
terms or solutions to prevent alienation.
Neutral: Share good news and positive results to gain support. Tailor
communication to their expectations. Don’t be pushy or over attendance and risk creating resistance.
Stakeholder Engagement (cont.)
Supportive: Get commitment. Make sure they are involved and
aware of what their contribution and commitment to the project.
Give feedback, share confidences, ask opinions. Show appreciation for these stakeholders’ opinions and contribution to
achieving objectives.
Leading: Develop and maintain alliances. Meet or make contact on a regular basis. Foster collaborative partnerships, use collective
problem-solving, and make public acknowledgements of their
successes.
Performance Reporting
Accomplishments for this reporting period, Accomplishments
planned but not completed for this reporting period, and Root
cause of variances, Impact to upcoming milestones or project due date, Planned corrective or preventive action
Funds spent this reporting period, Root cause of variance, Impact to
overall budget or contingency funds, Planned corrective or
preventive action
Accomplishments planned for the next reporting period
Costs planned for next reporting period
New risks identified
Issues
Closure Reporting
Project goal
Project objectives and results
Scope comparison
Cost performance
Schedule performance
Major obstacles encountered
Lessons learned
Stay in touch!
Christa Werle
Public Services Project Manager
(o) 360-651-7160
(m) 425-446-2387
Innovative Leadership
Boot Camp:
Supporting Innovation